Nick Taylor

Publication List Details

Period

1999 - 2009

Number

46

Co-Authors

Supporting (Mobile) User Experience at a Rural Village ‘Scarecrow Festival’: A Formative Study of a Geolocated Photo Mashup Utilising a Situated Display (2009)

Keith Cheverst, Paul Coulton, Will Bamford, Nick Taylor

In this paper, we describe a novel application focus for the web2.0 paradigm of user generated mashups of geo-tagged photos, Here we are interested in photos captured by multiple participants (via...

lancaster.ac.uk (2009)

Keith Cheverst, Nick Taylor, Mark Rouncefield, Areti Galani, Christian Kray

In this paper we discuss the obdurate problems associated with evaluating the extent to which technological interventions – in particular those based on mobile and ubiquitous technologies – can...

Public and situated displays to support communities (Workshop) (2008)

Taylor, Nick, Cheverst, Keith, Satchell, Christine, Foth, Marcus, MacColl, Ian

This workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners working with public displays in communities to share experiences and to identify research themes and issues arising from social and...

A Pervasive Environment Based on Personal Self-Improving Smart Spaces (2008)

Crotty, Micheal, Taylor, Nick, Williams, Howard, Frank, Korbinian, Roussaki, Ioanna, Roddy, Mark

Ubiquitous computing (or ambient intelligence) has been the subject of research in the mobile telecommunications field for many years. Developments such as the Internet of Services and Grid computing...

The Co-realisation of a Village Photo Display (2008)

Taylor, Nick, Cheverst, Keith, Dix, Alan, Silva, Paula Alexandra, Rouncefield, Mark

We describe the techniques used to evaluate the potential of situated photo displays in supporting notions of community in a rural village. Through a combination of ethnography, technology probe...

Encouraging Community Spirit with Situated Displays (2008)

Taylor, Nick, Rouncefield, Mark, Cheverst, Keith, Izadi, Shahram

There is a widespread belief that ‘community’ has been greatly diminished in many areas, partly attributed to the isolation and weak social ties encouraged by modern technology such as...

Intelligent Agents an Approach to Supporting Multiple Model Based Training Systems Abstract (2008)

Keith Brown, Nick Taylor, Yanguo Jing, Tariq Khan

This paper presents an approach to using an intelligent agent architecture for a training system based on multiple models. In this architecture, the domain model contains all the domain knowledge of...

Public and situated displays to support communities (Workshop) (2008)

Taylor, Nick, Cheverst, Keith, Satchell, Christine, Foth, Marcus, MacColl, Ian

This workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners working with public displays in communities to share experiences and to identify research themes and issues arising from social and...

Public and situated displays to support communities (Workshop) (2008)

Taylor, Nick, Cheverst, Keith, Satchell, Christine, Foth, Marcus, MacColl, Ian

This workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners working with public displays in communities to share experiences and to identify research themes and issues arising from social and...

Public and situated displays to support communities (Workshop) (2008)

Taylor, Nick, Cheverst, Keith, Satchell, Christine, Foth, Marcus, MacColl, Ian

This workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners working with public displays in communities to share experiences and to identify research themes and issues arising from social and...

SETS, Arbitrage Activity, and Stock Price (2007)

Nick Taylor, Dick Van Dijky

This paper provides an empirical description of the relationship between the trading system operated by a stock exchange and the transaction costs faced by heterogeneous investors who use the...

vrije Universiteit amsterdam A Comparison of Parametric, Semi-nonparametric, Adaptive, and Nonparametric Cointegration Tests (2007)

Nonparametric Cointegration Tests, H. Peter Boswijk, Nick Taylor, Andr�e Lucas Z

Nick Taylor x This paper provides an extensive Monte-Carlo comparison of several contemporary cointegration tests. Apart from the familiar Gaussian based tests of Johansen, we also consider tests...

SETS, Arbitrage Activity, and Stock Price (2007)

Nick Taylor, Dick Van Dijky

This paper provides an empirical description of the relationship between the trading system operated by a stock exchange and the transaction costs faced by heterogeneous investors who use the...

Enhancing financial and economic yield in tourism: public sector: central government benefits and costs of tourism (2007)

Cullen, Ross, Becken, Susanne, Butcher, Geoff, Lennox, James, Simmons, David G., Taylor, Nick

This report describes the national public sector direct inputs, and outline society’s indirect inputs, into tourism production and consumption. The public sector and societal benefits that accrue...

Probing Communities: Study of a Village Photo Display (2007)

Taylor, Nick, Cheverst, Keith, Fitton, Dan, Race, Nicholas J. P., Rouncefield, Mark, Graham, Connor

In this paper we describe a technology probe aiming to aid understanding of how digital displays can help support communities. Using a simple photo gallery application, deployed in a central social...

Developing a Pervasive System for a Mobile Environment (2006)

Williams, Howard, Taylor, Nick, Roussaki, Ioanna, Robertson, Patrick, Farshchian, Babak, Doolin, Kevin

The problem of personalised context aware service selection and composition is an important research area that is addressed within the pervasive service platform being developed by the Daidalos...

A statistical model to predict flow on the River Ouse in East Sussex / (2006)

Taylor, Nick.

Level 3 dissertation -- University of Leeds (School of Geography), 2005/2006.

A statistical model to predict flow on the River Ouse in East Sussex / (2006)

Taylor, Nick.

Level 3 dissertation -- University of Leeds (School of Geography), 2005/2006.

Marketing in small and medium sized enterprises (2006)

Simpson, Mike, Padmore, Jo, Taylor, Nick, Frecknall-Hughes, Jane

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report on a full-scale testing of the role of marketing and its relevance in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The objective is to present the...

Achieving `sustainable business': a study of perceptions of environmental best practice by SMEs in South Yorkshire (2003)

Taylor, Nick, Barker, Karen, Simpson, Mike

This paper provides an account of a questionnaire-based study of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and their responses to the current requirements of environmental best practice. The study...

Fertility and fertility management in thirteen well-established organic dairy herds in the UK (2002)

Hovi, Malla, Taylor, Nick, Hanks, James, Roderick, Stephen

This report was presented at the UK Organic Research 2002 Conference of the Colloquium of Organic Researchers (COR). Milk production and breeding records from thirteen organic dairy herds were...

Small mammal survey on agricultural land during conversion and into full organic production (2002)

Burke, Jean, Taylor, Nick

This report was presented at the UK Organic Research 2002 Conference. Loss of food and suitable habitat due to modern intensive farming and the decline of mixed farming systems has lead to a...

The productivity of organic dairy herds (2002)

Roderick, Stephen, Hovi, Malla, Taylor, Nick

This report was presented at the UK Organic Research 2002 Conference. Organically managed ruminant systems place particular emphasis on maximising production from forage. Therefore, it is important...

Small mammal survey on agricultural land during conversion and into full organic production (2002)

Burke, Jean, Taylor, Nick

This report was presented at the UK Organic Research 2002 Conference. Loss of food and suitable habitat due to modern intensive farming and the decline of mixed farming systems has lead to a...

The productivity of organic dairy herds (2002)

Roderick, Stephen, Hovi, Malla, Taylor, Nick

This report was presented at the UK Organic Research 2002 Conference. Organically managed ruminant systems place particular emphasis on maximising production from forage. Therefore, it is important...

Fertility and fertility management in thirteen well-established organic dairy herds in the UK (2002)

Hovi, Malla, Taylor, Nick, Hanks, James, Roderick, Stephen

This report was presented at the UK Organic Research 2002 Conference of the Colloquium of Organic Researchers (COR). Milk production and breeding records from thirteen organic dairy herds were...

A Comparison of Parametric, Semi-nonparametric, Adaptive, and Nonparametric Cointegration Tests (1999)

Boswijk, H. Peter, Lucas, Andre, Taylor, Nick

This paper provides an extensive Monte-Carlo comparison of severalcontemporary cointegration tests. Apart from the familiar Gaussian basedtests of Johansen, we also consider tests based on...

SETS, Arbitrage Activity, and Stock Price Dynamics (1999)

Taylor, Nick, Dijk, Dick Van, Franses, Philip Hans, Lucas, André

This paper provides an empirical description of the relationshipbetween the trading system operated by a stockexchange and the transaction costs faced by heterogeneous investors who use the exchange....

SETS, Arbitrage Activity, and Stock Price Dynamics

Nick Taylor, Dick Van Dijk, Philip Hans Franses, André Lucas

This paper provides an empirical description of the relationship between the trading system operated by a stock exchange and the transaction costs faced by heterogeneous investors who use the...

Portfolio Diversification and Excess Comovement in Commodity Prices.

Garrett, Ian, Taylor, Nick

We examine excess comovement in commodity prices and the extent to which this can be explained by the role of commodities in portfolio diversification. We estimate the proportion of investor wealth...

Econometric Models of Company Dividends Can Be Used to Identify Underpriced Shares.

Bulkley, George, Taylor, Nick

The authors estimate a price-conditional vector autoregression for individual company dividends and this is used to forecast future dividends. Stocks are then ranked by the ratio of their current...

Robust Evaluation of Fixed-Event Forecast Rationality.

Clements, Michael P, Taylor, Nick

In this paper we introduce a new testing procedure for evaluating the rationality of fixed-event forecasts based on a pseudo-maximum likelihood estimator. The procedure is designed to be robust to...

A Comparison of Parametric, Semi-nonparametric, Adaptive, and Nonparametric Cointegration Tests

H. Peter Boswijk, Andre Lucas, Nick Taylor

This paper provides an extensive Monte-Carlo comparison of several contemporary cointegration tests. Apart from the familiar Gaussian based tests of Johansen, we also consider tests based on...

A comparison of parametric, semi-nonparametric, adaptive and nonparametric tests

Boswijk, H. Peter, Lucas, Andr‚, Taylor, Nick

This paper provides an extensive Monte-Carlo comparison of several contemporary cointegration tests. Apart from the familiar Gaussian based tests of Johansen, we also consider tests based on...

Evaluating interval forecasts of high-frequency financial data

Michael P. Clements, Nick Taylor

A number of methods of evaluating the validity of interval forecasts of financial data are analysed, and illustrated using intraday FTSE100 index futures returns. Some existing interval forecast...

Comparing the Bias and Misspecification in Arfima Models

Smith, Jeremy, Taylor, Nick, Yadav, Sanjay

A number of papers have looked at the bias in the fractional integration parameter, d using a variety of alternative estimation techniques. This paper supplements that literature by investigating the...

Achieving 'sustainable business': a study of perceptions of environmental best practice by SMEs in South Yorkshire

Nick Taylor, Karen Barker, Mike Simpson

This paper provides an account of a questionnaire-based study of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and their responses to the current requirements of environmental best practice. The study...

The Potential Influence of Multiple Job Holding on Official Statistics Describing The Rural Workforce: Issues for Data Series and Workforce Policy

Taylor, Nick, Baines, James, Newell, James

The research programme on multiple job holding identified substantial discrepancies between the Census and HLFS series regarding the increasing level of rural multiple job holding 1981 to 2001....